Ashley Park (Tipperary)
Ashley Park (also Ashleypark, Irish Páirc Ashley ) is an "almost undifferentiated" trapezoidal passage tomb or a stone box in Puckaun near Lisbunny in County Tipperary in Ireland .
Ashley Park is a complex made up of megaliths and dry masonry , in which the corridor and chamber do not form separate units. In this respect, it corresponds approximately to the V-shaped dolmens , as they are typical for Brittany , but which only widen symmetrically in the chamber area. The form occurs in some Irish ( English Simple Passage tombs ) ( Knowth ).
The approximately 5.0 m long system lies eccentrically in a round hill with a diameter of 26 m and is oriented to the northwest. The entrance is about 1.3 m wide at the front and the end is about 2.3 m wide. About 1.5 m in front of the back wall there is a stone on the side that marks the beginning of the chamber. The massive capstone of the chamber lies on the floor. The archaeological inventory for North Tipperary, oddly enough, calls the facility Linkardstown- type stone box .
Animal bones and the remains of an infant were found in the cairn material. A grown man and a child were found in the chamber. The grave goods found consisted of animal bones and ceramics. The remains were dated to 3350 BC. Dated. A pile of large boulders shifted to the side of the hill once sat on the hill.
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literature
- Conleth Manning et al .: A Neolithic Burial Mound at Ashleypark, Co. Tipperary. In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature , Vol. 85C (1985), pp. 61-100.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 8 ° 11 ′ 17.2 ″ W.